Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Executive Commercial Policy Committee. Purpose: to supervise negotiations of all commercial treaties, such as are now anticipated between the U. S. and Sweden, Portugal, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Russia. Personnel: Walter J. Cummings (Treasury); Assistant Secretary Dickinson and Dr. Willard Thorp (Commerce); Assistant Secretary Tugwell (Agriculture); General William I. Westervelt (AAA); Oscar B. Ryder (NRA); Commissioners O'Brien and Page (Tariff Commission). Chairman pro tempore is Undersecretary of State Philipps...
...Seats. Not just to praise his NRA but also to explain his colleague George Peek's collateral AAA and to hold the farm vote for next autumn's Congressional elections, came General Johnson. Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota control 107 seats in the House of Representatives, 78 of which are now Democratic. Loss of many of these seats to the Republicans might deeply cut the Democratic house majority of 183, seriously hamper President Roosevelt's program...
...nothing to do with farm credits, or home loan or farm loan or public works. . . . The AAA had to deal not with industry which operates all year, but with agriculture which operates on seasonal crops. It did not have authority in time to do all it intends for this year's crops. . . . Farm revolt may be useful, but it is no part of wisdom to revolt against our friends. . . . What did you ever get from these gentlemen who are now inciting you against the President's program? I'll tell you what you got. . . . You got destitution...
...front of the White House one afternoon last week, five worried Governors unloaded themselves from automobiles and posed for newscameras with Secretary Wallace of Agriculture and Director George Peek of AAA. Then Floyd Bjerstjerne Olson of Minnesota, the group's spokesman, with a sporty blue shirt, blue tie, grey suit and slicked-back hair, led them in to see the President. His jaunty step belied the deep concern he felt. South Dakota's Tom Berry, a broad-brimmed plush hat of sandy hue above his leathery face, took the steps in a rolling cowboy gait...
...Iowa's capitol at Des Moines, all five Governors and representatives of four others had chewed stogies while tousle-headed Milo Reno, the rampaging Des Moines insurance man who fomented the Farmers Holiday movement, read off the list of his demands for agriculture. Hating Secretary Wallace and the AAA as a farmer hates a drought, Reno had asked for a farm code which would remove agriculture from Wallace's supervision, put it entirely under the NRA. Each farmer would be licensed to sell only his proportion of the domestic consumption of his product. The Government would decree minimum...